“You are creative with food” my sister said to me this evening. “Well when Andy insists on giving me 10 tonnes of pumpkin I kinda have to be” 😂
I’m still working my way through the original pumpkin never mind the one I’ve been cutting up this evening; see my story.
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This was vegan pumpkin & kale cheese bake served with #yellowsticker roasties and green beans from @olio_ex
Recipe coming soon on my blog 🎃

I am very glad that I ended up planting these turnips. It seemed like wishful thinking when I planted them so late in the season, and I had plans to mostly eat them as greens. But here I am, months later, with a good crop happily sitting under a tarp, keeping me feed with something fresh from the garden.
One of the things I enjoy most about gardening, is the low risk adventures you can take. Throw a handful of seeds in the ground, worst case scenerio, nothing grows. But you can only reap what you sow, so plant a bit of hope!

What do you do when you take on an allotment that is more weeds than soil (both alive and dead) and has been covered with impermeable black tarp for over a year starving the soil of water and nutrients? Green manure the hell out of it and hope for the best!!

Growing food on an allotment takes alot hard work. It's something that if I'm honest, I have no interest in getting my hands dirty planting and weeding and what ever else it is that my mum does on the allotment. But I love being in the fortune position that means I can just reap the rewards.
It doesn't mean though that I take the hard work for granted. We should never take the work that others put in for granted, and appreciate what is done for us.
Now excuse me while I go turn these potatoes into tasty chips 😋
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#hardwork #homegrown #allotment #potatoes #freshfood #goodfood #fitness #ukfitness #ukallotment #newpotatoes #yummy #ukfitfam

My beautiful edible organic salad bouquet from @grounded.enterprises 🌿 I genuinely didn't know that salad could be spicy! But some these leaves had a mustardy spice to them, definitely mixed it up a bit!

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There's just no poo that works better in the garden than rabbit poop. It has all the amazing benefits of horse and steer manure but with a distinct advantage. Because it's considered a cold manure, you don't have to let rabbit poop age or compost before you use it. Other manures that come from chickens, sheep, horse, cows, and pigs are hot manures, these need to be composted for months before you can safely use them in your garden beds otherwise you will burn your plants to death. Rabbit poop fertilizer can truly change your garden, and if you have rabbits you have an endless supply of droppings at your disposal, just like I have right here. Did you Know that rabbit manure has four times more nutrients than cow or horse manure and it's twice as rich as chicken manure. Rabbit manure is packed with nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, minerals and micronutrients, they also contain trace elements of sulfur, calcium, copper and magnesium. We have been using our rabbit poo-balls in the garden for quite some time now and the results are amazing! Let me share with you how we use it in the garden.
Rabbit Pellets as a Super Fertiliser - Sprinkle a handful of poo-balls around your garden and let them slowly release nutrients into the soil. As they do break down, they build your soil's structure, improve the porosity, add stability, and hold nutrients for plants as well as other organisms in the soil.
Rabbit Pellets as a Super Fertiliser.
Sprinkle a handful of poo-balls around your garden and let them slowly release nutrients into the soil. As they do break down, they build your soil's structure, improve the porosity, add stability, and hold nutrients for plants as well as other organisms in the soil.
Give Transplants a Boost.
When you are digging a new hole for a transplant to your garden, add a little rabbit poop into the whole before putting the plant in. This give the roots and instant fertilizer to tap into.
Compost Rabbit Poop
Rabbit droppings are wonderful additions to your compost. They will add a rich boost of nitrogen to your compost pile and I have found they break down pretty quickly. #growyourown #growyourownfood

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#tomatoesnottogrow
You always hear people talk about their #gyo triumphs but you very rarely hear people talk about the things they won’t be growing again and the reasons why. I grew 23 varieties of tomatoes this year and of that 23 I think at a push I’d grow 6 of them again. For most of us space is at a premium so it can be very annoying to waste space on something that’s not worth it. Similarly time is also very precious and it can be a right head melter to spend months tending to something for you to end up hating it. So with all that in mind I’m going to be posting the varieties I won’t be growing again and the reasons why. First up is Current Sweet Pea. Tomatoes the size of red currents that are meant to be very sweet and tasty. Well the tomatoes might be small but the plants ain’t! The top picture is from the site I got the seeds from, the green toms on the blue background are ones I grew. The reason I have no photo of my own ripe ones is I had to rip all the plants out before any more had ripened. They absolutely took over! As you can see from the bottom right picture. They wrapped themselves around the rest of the plants and were really starting to smoother everything. It was an impossible task to try keep them cut back and from taking over. So considering the time, water, effort and space they were taking up I didn’t think they were worth it. They didn’t even taste that good tbh. I’ll be posting about this all week so keep an eye out if tomatoes are your thing. I’m interested to hear others opinions on varieties not to grow so if your talking about the subject use #tomatoesnottogrow so I can find ya!
#polytunnel #polytunnellife #tomatogrowing #tomatoes #growyourown #growyourownfood #ediblegarden #veggiegarden #veggiepatch #allotment #allotmentlife #girlswhogrow #sustainableliving #polytunnelofdreams #polytunneljungle #shesowsseeds